This Woman Hacked Her Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow in a Genius Way

Ever heard of a happy accident? Well, one woman on Reddit is pretty much defining it: She put on her Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade in the morning (part of her usual routine) and found when she washed her makeup off that the Dipbrow had left a permanent mark on her.

Yup, the eyebrow pomade created a pretty intense outline. And while tan lines on basically any other part of the body may be annoying, this one serves to be fairly helpful. Here's where the "genius" part comes in: "Now you have a clear guideline of the eyebrow you want, [so] I say it's a win," commented another user. Yes, teadorable has inadvertently created her very own eyebrow stencil just by wearing her Dipbrow out in the sun. And now, the move is going to shave minutes off her morning routine.

Quickly, other users chimed in about how certain makeup products—like eye-shadow primers and lipsticks—have also helped protect them from the sun. "I put concealer on a chest zit once, then was outside all day," writes one Redditor. "I had a white spot where I applied the concealer for months." So what's the deal with makeup products sometimes acting as sun protection? "Anything opaque will give the skin some protection, even if a cosmetic is not labeled as having SPF protection. The fact that it provides a physical barrier between the skin and the sun means it will block some sun rays," says Joshua Zeichner, the director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. This does not mean Zeichner advocates not using proper sunscreen, because even if your makeup is protecting you, it can easily slide off your skin. "Something oily and translucent can increase your risk of a burn, allowing UV light to better penetrate into the skin," he says. "Translucent lip glosses without SPF protection are a bad choice because they can increase you risk of a lip burn."

But what exactly is in the Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade that created such a strong tan line? Cosmetic chemist Randy Schueller says that the product contains some ingredients that aid in creating opacity and even one that's found in sunscreens. "It contains titanium dioxide, which is an approved sunscreen additive. I don't know if it contains enough to really provide protection, but that's the only ingredient in the product that is proven to work," he says. "There are some other ingredients that may block some of the sun due to their opacity, including iron oxides and bismuth oxychloride."

Bottom line: Always, always, always put on your sunscreen before you put on your makeup, but sometimes your makeup can help out with blocking the sun. And in some really special cases, that makeup product can end up helping you out the next time you want to shape your brows. Another user commented that if the Reddit user applied her Dipbrow a little thinner on the bottom, she would have her own "natural highlighter." Who know brow pomade was so multipurpose?